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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
11 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Better alignment between Containers UI and Container Reporting

Customer would like to see more alignment for future releases. The differences caused confusion and inconsistency when reporting across CLDY.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Support/Status/View: Displays the status of all running applications, services, and microservices in a topology view, indicated by color codes (green/yellow/red). Selecting any node or application displays the connected and affected services. Righ...
3 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
12 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
24 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Improved Weekly Time Entry Experience for TP Users

As a TP user, I need an improved user experience for weekly time entry, allowing me to quickly log time for the entire week, view the time already submitted versus the remaining, check the approval status of my timesheet, and access other relevant...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Ability to have a longer look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations

The desire is to have the ability to select more than 30 days for the look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations. Looking for at least 90 days.